Re: ATM [history] Old periodicals on-line

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Dominic-Luc Webb molmed wrote:
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> Scientific Miscellany. [The Galaxy. / Volume 24, Issue 1, July 1877]
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> "Mr. iluggins, who has, after repeated trials, succeeded in photographing
> the spec- trum of a star (a Lyrw), found in this first photograph evidence
> that sustains a former conjecture of his, that calcium is a mixture of
> elements, and not single. This conclusion was previously reached by direct
> experiments on the spectrum of the metal. Now the confirmation arises from
> the fact that in this new pho- tograph of the stars spectrum one of the
> lines of calcium is wanting, proving to Mr. Huggins that it is not a
> simple element. In such brilliant ways do the correlated methods of
> investigation prove each other."
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> Haa haaa haaa... what a riot!!!
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> This is going to be fun...
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Yeah, you just gave Richard more fuel in his fight to save us from the
'olde guarde'. ;-)

HOWEVER, most of what we do isn't ground breaking and we have methods
that have proven 'sufficient' in most cases.  I always try and keep an
open mind.  I look at this stuff and wonder how much of todays physics
will be looked at like this in 50 years or so.  Think of tommorows
physics jokes if the uncertainty principle is found to be false.....

-- 
Ken Lowther
Youngstown, Ohio
http://www.atmsite.org